Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:56:16 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: T/TCP: Syn and RST Cookies |
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Date: 13 Apr 1998 17:49:52 +0200
"David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> writes:
> We drop data in a SYN frame, relax pinhead.
We could make it a sysctl. For all usual cases it would be no slowdown in the critical path, because that part is never hit anyways by SYNs without data.
Nope, ain't gonna happen. Alan in his commentary was trying to hint that allowing this to happen can open you to certain DoS attacks.
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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